Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin (in

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: ''Владимир Михайлович Закалюкин''; 9 July 1951 – 30 December 2011) was a Russian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

known for his research on

singularity theory In mathematics, singularity theory studies spaces that are almost manifolds, but not quite. A string can serve as an example of a one-dimensional manifold, if one neglects its thickness. A singularity can be made by balling it up, dropping it ...

differential equation In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation that relates one or more unknown functions and their derivatives. In applications, the functions generally represent physical quantities, the derivatives represent their rates of change, an ...

s, and

optimal control theory Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

. He obtained his Ph.D. at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1977 (the thesis: "Lagrangian and Legendrian singularities"). His thesis advisor was

Vladimir Arnold Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, russian: link=no, Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov– ...

. In 2007 he won the MAIK Nauka award for best research publication in Russian. He worked at the

, the

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, and the

Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) (MAI; russian: Московский авиационный институт, МАИ) is one of the major engineering institutes in Moscow, Russia. Since its inception MAI has been spearhe ...

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Selected publications

*V. M. Zakalyukin, "Lagrangian and Legendrian singularities", ''Functional Analysis and Its Applications'', 1976. *V. M. Zakalyukin, "Reconstructions of fronts and caustics depending on a parameter and versality of mappings", ''Journal of Soviet Mathematics'', 1984. *V. M. Zakalyukin, "Singularities of Circle-Surface Contacts and Flags", ''Functional Analysis and Its Applications'', 1997. *V. V. Goryunov, V. M. Zakalyukin, "Simple symmetric matrix singularities and the subgroups of Weyl groups Aμ, Dμ, Eμ", Mosc. Math. J., 3:2 (2003). *J.-P. Gauthier, V. M. Zakalyukin, "On the motion planning problem, complexity, entropy, and nonholonomic interpolation", J. Dyn. Control Syst., 12:3 (2006).

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1951 births 2011 deaths Russian mathematicians Academics of the University of Liverpool Moscow State University alumni Moscow State University faculty Control theorists {{Russia-mathematician-stub